Hi All,
Recently i purchased a used SDB from an OAS member. The good thing is, it was all setup and ready to load. The bad thing about that is I didn't learn how to assemble the thing and really don't know how it goes together.
Soon after I started using it a couple of problems developed. 1. There is a "hitch" in the action on the way down after loading the powder. As you pull down it grabs and you have to back off and keep pushing down. At the best, this is an annoyance and slows you down a bit.. worse than that, it sometimes grabs hard enough to shake some powder out of the shell going to the next station. About one in every 25 pulls, the action will get stuck at the top and requires several gentle pulls to free it. I THINK it has something to do with the primer feed, but I really have no clue.
Problem number two seems to be temporary as it isn't doing it anymore, but for about 12-15 rounds, the press put a crescent-shaped dent in the bottom of the primer. I have attached a picture below... you can see on the left of the bottom row the primers are pretty mangled... but the rest of them just have a moon-shaped dent in them. These are Federal Premium Match primers btw.
Now, right before this started, a thin black washer appeared to fall out of the press from the die area up underneath. The washer is very thin and is bent - sort of rounded.. it is also in the picture below. I have NO idea where this goes, but the press seems to be working fine without it and the primer problem was temporary. The hitch in the action is NOT temporary... I sure would like to fix that.
Any ideas?
Thanks as always.
B
Recently i purchased a used SDB from an OAS member. The good thing is, it was all setup and ready to load. The bad thing about that is I didn't learn how to assemble the thing and really don't know how it goes together.
Soon after I started using it a couple of problems developed. 1. There is a "hitch" in the action on the way down after loading the powder. As you pull down it grabs and you have to back off and keep pushing down. At the best, this is an annoyance and slows you down a bit.. worse than that, it sometimes grabs hard enough to shake some powder out of the shell going to the next station. About one in every 25 pulls, the action will get stuck at the top and requires several gentle pulls to free it. I THINK it has something to do with the primer feed, but I really have no clue.
Problem number two seems to be temporary as it isn't doing it anymore, but for about 12-15 rounds, the press put a crescent-shaped dent in the bottom of the primer. I have attached a picture below... you can see on the left of the bottom row the primers are pretty mangled... but the rest of them just have a moon-shaped dent in them. These are Federal Premium Match primers btw.
Now, right before this started, a thin black washer appeared to fall out of the press from the die area up underneath. The washer is very thin and is bent - sort of rounded.. it is also in the picture below. I have NO idea where this goes, but the press seems to be working fine without it and the primer problem was temporary. The hitch in the action is NOT temporary... I sure would like to fix that.
Any ideas?
Thanks as always.
B
